Good Times Bad Times – Led Zeppelin | Guitar Lesson
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Learn how to play Good Times Bad Times, as performed by Led Zeppelin, released as the first song on side 1 of Led Zeppelin I. Probably one of the best “making a statement” songs from a new artist carving out a new era of rock.
The lesson covers all the greatness in the rhythm guitars (there are two rhythm guitar tracks panned left and right that play slightly different things) and of course the guitar solos.
00:00 Introduction / What to Expect
01:27 Getting your tone
02:40 Lesson – Intro chords
03:44 Lesson – Verse chords
06:25 Lesson – Chorus chords (both rhythm guitars)
09:00 Lesson – F# Bridge riff
11:47 Lesson – Rhythm guitars during guitar solo
14:02 Lesson – Lead Guitar – guitar solo
18:39 Playthrough – guitar solo
19:27 Lesson – Lead Guitar – outro solos
25:30 Playthrough – outro solos
26:32 Final thoughts
Gear used in this video (if you purchase via these links I will earn a small commission):
Fender Telecaster https://sweetwater.sjv.io/q4DjRb
Xotic EP Boost: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/R5Py09 (knob at 9 o’clcok)
Boss EQ: https://imp.i114863.net/AoOO0o (mids boosted 1 tic)
Neo Instruments Ventilator II https://imp.i114863.net/dogooQ (fast rotary speed, Drive at 7)
1983 Fender Super Champ (Rivera era) into a VHT 12″ speaker cabinet, channel 1, max gain, T5, B3, M10, reverb 2
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Good song, except everyone has covered it. How about Triumph lay it on the line. Fight the good fight. Eagles out on border. UFO Mother Mary. Blue Oyster cult Godzilla, take me away. Supertramp bloody well right. Built to Spill – Carry the Zero. Heavy Metal don felder.
Just when I thought last week's lesson could not be topped. Holy smoke!
Too Much bang for the BUCK!!???????????????? Thanks Doug!!
Recently acquired a new Supro Black Magick Reverb, and it is spot on to the studio album. Except for me playing the guitar. Which kinda sucks.
I really appreciate all your time and efforts, I have learned so many great songs from your videos!
I bought a hard back book of Led Zeppelin that has every song on every album the ever recorded. It has the sheet music and the tabs too. I call it my Led Zeppelin Bible any song you want to know to play it tells you. Whenever I bought it it cost 49 bucks and that was about 4 years ago and now I think it’s over 100. But it is well worth the money.
Great lesson!! Thanks so much.
What is the Fender behind you, looks some like my band master, but smaller.
Is Jimmy Page adding in the 3rd in the Albert King box only during the V chord? The 3rd becomes the b6 over the V chord.
Can you do a lesson on how to play rock bottom by UFO
Less yapping and more playing my boy
Great lesson! Especially those outro runs. Nobody else (I’ve seen) has ever gotten those right. I assume you’re using 9’s. That or you have really strong hands to do those big bends. Thanks!
Mid seventies – 14 year old boy – newly arrived to the US from Colombia S.A – Whah..what is this music I'm hearing ?? I want to play guitar and play all this music . Music class ..teacher teaches 5ths and open chords …Yeih I'm on my wayyy!! Father buys me an electric guitar from a pawn shop .. well, I mean a plank of wood with strings , so high Malcom Young would have been in heaven with it but, not mee lil fingas ..try finding friends that I can learn from..nope .. they just want to smoke weed and enjoy the music..well so do I but , I really want to play this music.. get my records, cheapy turn table , needle up /needle down .. no one to teach me about pedals or alternate tunings . now an old man with terrible technique and terrible hearing ????????????!!! The music gods are still laughing at me .. they put the fire in me and prevented me from being able to put it out !! why could they have sent a friend like this guy to teach me ! Thank you for everything sir !!!
What a fantastic video have a wonderful weekend Doug ❤????
We can't get enough Zep either Doug please keep 'em coming. Thank-you ,
From Les 's hometown.
Thank you for a helpful video
Fantastic!
Happy to see this ! Thank you.
Great video! OK, what is it with these British guitarists and their 2 step bends?
Love Jimmy Page! Those overbends in tune are such a signature
Love your channel! The way I was taught the verse riff was the hammer-on on the 7th fret is off the open D string! Not that D on fret 5 of A string, which can tend to resonate if you don’t go to the trouble of muting it. You use the open D later in the riff, but I think it’s there at the beginning too. Page was pretty economical in his playing.
Ya might showcae a song from the sleeper album that was releasaed under the name Fresh Cream.
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Always great when 12 foot chain puts out a Page/ Zeppelin lesson! It’s a beautiful thing ????????????????????
Thanks!
Congrats on the 100k..well deserved..
Enough of Led hahaha play some Skynyrd lol really though how about some Uncle Ted ????
For early Zep Page tone, I really like the Tele 4 way switching position with both pickups in series. I'm not sure if Page had that mod on his Tele, but it sounds a lot like it. Fat and aggressive, but still pretty bright. When I learned this myself by ear, I always heard it as a hammer-on from A-D on the first part of the verse riff after the big E chord. Haven't played this in a while, thanks for the much needed refresher. Need a Leslie pedal now.
I remember going through my dad’s LPs and coming across this album, I put it on the turntable, dropped the needle and it blew me away. What an intro! Every time I hear it, it brings me back to that moment. ????????
Chain you have more flavor than a homemade soup. Love it.
And of course John Paul Jones wrote the bulk of this track.
It was his riff and his arrangement.
The one that was 'toughest to get across' to the other guys until they 'got it'
All of them contributed when all was said and done though.
Great Stuff!
Love the dissection & analysis
Thank you 12 Foot chain. Great lesson awesome chops. Glad i subscribed.
Played this in a band in 1980 with some LZ heads, we had forty on the song list and a guy that if you closed your eyes you couldnt tell it wasnt Plant, and im not kidding, he quit 3 years later said we were killing him, guess we we were lol,
I slid into the D chord from c# every time because you slide from C# all the way up to E on the next riff …just slide that barre chord … everything else I played just like you did.
great job , thanks, what a blistering tune!
A real gem of a track. Good job!
Yes and certainly the tele sound on that first album.
Sweet thx ????
I was 16 years old when this album was released, and trust me when I say my brain just about exploded! No one in my circle of high school musician friends expected anything like it, even though there were plenty of British precursors around that might have warned us that this could happen. Thanks, as usual, for the excellent lesson! ????????????